“I don’t find it strange that a rider wants to freshen up before he goes to the podium. And yes, there was a party last year. But is that so bad?”

Cycling coach Patrick Lefevere, reacting in an interview with Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad to accusations by the Qatar Cycling Federation that his team was excluded from this year’s Tour of Qatar for “disciplinary problems.”

(The post “I don’t find it strange that a rider wants to freshen up before he goes to the podium. And yes, there was a party last year. But is that so bad?” is from Doha News.)